Suspect connected to purse-snatching caught

TROY - City officers caught a pair connected to a purse theft after a car chase in the early afternoon Wednesday.

The purse-snatching near the Canterbury House, 36 Pawling Avenue, after which time the suspects, a man and a black woman, took off in a red Pontiac Firebird with the woman driving, reportedly.

Police spotted the Firebird near the intersection of Pawling Avenue and Congress Street and chased the pair into downtown. The car chase ended when police caught up to the pair in front of the Rensselaer County Courthouse, at which time the man took off on foot. He was caught climbing a fence near Frear Alley.